Letter: Midwives should be licensed in Missouri

It is high time that certified professional midwives be licensed in Missouri. For the past 50 years, these highly skilled practitioners have been deemed felons. During the past 20 years, a small but mighty group has been at the capitol daily, fighting for change. Every spring begins with a bill to legalize midwives but ends with disappointment for home-birth families. Our state leaders keep deciding that women cannot make their own decisions and should not have freedom over their own births. This is a public health outrage, and it has gone on long enough.